Seeking to enhance the availability and quality of architectural case studies,
we examine the web, believing that it may help to simplify authorship, distribution,
and navigation of a catalog of case studies. A disk-based multi-media prototype from an
earlier effort has been converted to the web and generalized to create a template.
Warehousing and navigation of multiple case studies forms the main focus of the current
project. Two existing models, monolithic web sites and web rings, are considered and
rejected. A third approach is developed which promises to provide a low-budget low-overhead
infrastructure within which to house an indefinite number of case studies,
while permitting free-form browsing of the collection. The approach which we have
developed creates what we call a "multi-site".